19 april - 22 april 2020
Conservatoruim van Amsterdam
at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, given by Sandrine Chatron
The yearly audition training course for harpists will be given by Sandrine Chatron,
solo harpist at the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, teacher at the
Conservatorium van Amsterdam and at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève.
The training will take place from the 19th to the 22nd of April 2020.
This course takes the form of an orchestral repertoire coaching course, focusing on
audition preparation, providing the opportunity for mock auditions, and a final
audition with a professional jury at the end of the course. The winner of the final
audition will be invited to play one program with the Nederlands Philharmonisch
Orkest during the next season (http://www.orkest.nl/).
The main purpose of the training is to provide the opportunity to experience first
hand an audition situation, and all that that entails, the sense of competition, the
possibility of stage fright, and the level of concentration needed. These specific
issues and others will be approached directly, enabling the participants to master
their skills in preparation for an audition.
The work will be done on an individual and a group basis.
Sandrine Chatron
Sandrine Chatron was awarded first prize for harp and chamber
music at the Paris Conservatoire in 1995. She studied with Gérard
Devos, Marie
-Claire Jamet, Frédérique Cambreling and Germaine
Lorenzini, winning first prize at the Cité des Arts Competition, at the
Chamber Music Competition in Arles and the Banque Populaire
Foundation award. She joined the Netherlands Philharmonic
Orchestra as a solo harpist in
2009,
and has been a teacher at the Conservatory of Amsterdam since
2012. Since 2018, she teaches at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève.
She is a member of the Ensemble Calliopée as well
as the Trio Polycordes. She has appeared both as a concert artist and as a chamber
musician across Europe, Asia and North America, including appearances at the Théâtre
des Champs
-Elysées and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. She performs regularly with
the Ensemble Intercontemporain, with whom she has recorded Pierre Boulez’s Sur
Incises for Deutsche Grammophon. She has worked with the principal
French orchestras such as Opéra de Paris, Orchestre de Paris and Orchestre National de
France. She has also performed with the Klangforum Wien, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra,
the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Lucerne
Festival Orchestra, working with such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo. Muti,
Daniel Harding, Sir Simon Rattle, Yannick Nézet-
Séguin and Georges Prêtre. Solo
recordings include a recital disc of British Music for Aparte, French Music (Caplet,
Debussy) for Ambroisie, “Le salon de mus
ique de Marie
-Antoinette” for Naïve and the
premiere recordings of concerti for Harp by Kristof Maratka and Ricardo Nillni.
Applications with a CV and motivation letter are to be submitted via this link:
https://www.consam.nl/auditietraining
-harp/
no later than March 1st.
A maximum of 8 participants can join the training.
The training is free of charge for students of the CvA and also open to ex
ternal students and
young professionals. The fee is € 175,00 for students and € 225,00 for professionals.
Accepted candidates will be notified no later than March 10th and will be required to
pay the course fees directly to the CvA, no later than April 1s
t.
Pre
-selection:
Applicants outside the CvA are requested to send a video
recording link (YouTube/Vimeo, etc.) with their application.
Programme required:
A solo piece, max 8 min (suggestions: Britten, Händel, Hindemith, Spohr etc.)
Two orchestral exce
rpts:
•
Stravinsky: Symphonie in 3 movements –
part 3 [172] to
[177]
•
Tchaikovsky: Cadenza from Swan lake, Nutcracker, or Sleeping
Beauty
National and international payments:
Stichting Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Oosterdokskade
151
1011 DL
Amsterdam
IBAN: NL52RABO0309 0344 26 BIC:
RABONL2U
Please mention: Audition Training Harp 2020 –
Sandrine Chatron
19/04 10.00
-13.00 and 14.00
-17.00 Sweelinckzaal
20/04 9:00
-12:00 and 13:00
-16:00 Sweelinckzaal
21/04 9:00
-12:00 and 13:00
-16:00 Bernard Haitink
zaal
22/04 11:00 Final Audition in the Sweelinckzaal (open to the public)
Repertoire list:
1
Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique –
Un Bal
2
Britten
Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34: Cadenza and Fugue
3
Bruch
Scottish Fantasy Op.46, Part IV, beginning to D
4
Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor, Cadenza Act 1, scene 4
5
Ravel
Alborada del Grazioso, beginning to 9 and 20 to 23
6
Strauss
Salome’s dance, 10 for Q to V
7
Stravinsky
Symphony in Three movements, Part 2: 116 to 125, Part 3: 172 to 177
8
Tchaikovsky
Cadenza: Swan Lake, Nutcracker or Sleeping Beauty
9
Verdi
Ouverture La Forza del Destino
10
Wagner
Tannhäuser, Act 1, scene 2: beginning to B
Links to the sheet music of all the requested excerpts will be sent after confirmation of
acceptance.